Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1944)

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It's hard for even Fate to harness a determined fellow like Jimmy Craig, once he makes up his mind. There s no good reason at all why James Henry Meador should ever have turned into James Craig, movie star— except that the same J H Meador shrewdly sized up the tortune there was in being a Hollywood star, said "that's for me"— and made it for him —in a few not-so-easy lessons. After all, a Nashville boy who ironed the kinks out of his long legs breaking clods on his grandpappy's Tennessee farm, peddled papers after school, carpentered during vacations, footballed his way through a Texas college and started his busui ess life m the roughhouse surroundings of an fcast lexas oil field hasn't exactly the perfect background for a Barrymore There s no point here in detailing the life and times of James Craig, step by step-except to point out that Jimmy has been a hustler all his life— with a canny eye focused on getting what makes the world go 'round and taking no back talk from said world. schemes — not dreams ... At Rice Institute, in Houston, lexas, for instance, where he landed for college Jimmy faced the problem of earning his cakes and coffee while he helped himself to some education. He tried hashing and waiting tables for a while, but there seemed to be no percentage in that, and it took time away from his fullbacking for the 'Varsity. 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